Could Washington Wizards Usurp '11-'12 Charlotte Bobcats as the Worst Team Ever?

The 2-14 Washington Wizards’ season could be summarized in a hypothetical newspaper ad. That ad would say the following: “WANTED: Winning Streak. Two games or more. Style points not needed. Pistons, Cavaliers and Raptors preferred. Title contenders should abstain."

Odds are that the Wizards will not threaten the 1972-73 Philadelphia 76ers, which accumulated the fewest amount of wins in an 82-game season by finishing 9-73.

The Washington Wizards will probably be just be a run-of-the-mill bad team that finishes 15-67 or thereabouts once John Wall comes back from his injury.

The fact remains that the Wizards possessed a .153 winning percentage after winning only two of their first 15 games. They could be in danger of taking over the record for worst winning percentage ever, a distinction that currently belongs to the 2011-12 Charlotte Bobcats. The 'Cats went 7-59 with a winning percentage of only .106, and started with a record of 3-12 after 15 games.

Let’s remember that the Wizards finished last season with six straight victories. This took the Wizards from 15-46 to 20-46. (Impressive, I know.)

Better late than never, even if the notion of the momentum acquired from that streak went down the drain after Washington lost the first 12 games of the 2012-2013 season.

Nowadays, seeing six straight wins seems as feasible as the Capitals playing hockey.

Granted, Nene and company did just beat the Heat at home, something that not even the most ardent Wizards fan could have seen coming. Then again, the Heat seem as interested in playing defense as the Wizards are in scoring points, with Washington being dead last in the league with an average of 90.4 points per game this season.

Silver had the Wizards winning two of these four games, and I agree with the genius. (Shocker.) Washington could even take three of four if the team feels particularly inspired to nab a win on the road, where they are 0-7 so far.

The Sacramento Kings are the only other team that hasn’t won away from home yet this year and are currently sporting an 0-6 mark. Misery loves company.

This month is brutal for the Wizards with a five-game West Coast swing included, so wins could come few and far between to start 2013.

However, mid-January provides a glimmer of hope as the Wizards face a Hawks team that they almost beat in Atlanta, a Magic team that inspires fear in absolutely nobody and then the Kings come as the first game of the road trip when the legs are still fresh.

This will be a promising stretch of ineptitude for the Wizards, as they will face four of the best teams in the NBA.

The two road games against the Grizzlies and against the Spurs smell like blowouts, especially considering that San Antonio already defeated them in Washington earlier this season by a score of 118-92.

Their only hope is that Gregg Popovich rests his starters. Even then, they would probably still lose.

The home games against the Clippers and Knicks are matchup nightmares for a team that is mediocre defensively and will be facing the sixth and fourth-highest scoring teams in the league, respectively.

These three teams have a combined record of 19-36 so far, which is why the Wizards might be ripe for a modest win streak to happen. Unless the Wizards suffer a sudden bunch of mysterious injuries that it just so happens would ensure that Washington has the best odds to grab the No. 1 pick in the 2013 NBA Draft, of course.